DECEMBER SWEETS: A PHOTO TOUR

Fondant-glazed Sugar Cookies
December is a busy month for a pastry chef… working odd hours, long hours, short hours (last night I worked from 10pm to 2am… and I pick up again tonight at 2am). I cook so much this month that I’ve started to feel like a real pâtissier and not just a silly imposter [...]

FINANCIERS… EN PYRAMID

Financiers en pyramid: the little cake for clean hands
I started to write about the Napoleon (Millefeuille) I recently made, but explaining the recipe was getting to be too much for my tired head today! I say “it’s easy” and then I go into lengthly and complicated explanations… no good! So we’ll reserve that for [...]

FLORENTINES

Chocolate dipped florentines
A little magic is in the air today. Outside it’s snowing. Inside I’m cleaning house and preparing mentally for a holiday spent in a French pastry shop. After today, my next day off is January 1st. Yikes! I’m afraid I won’t want to see another bûche de noël for as long as [...]